Both individual and mass transport options would get cheaper.
Thus, less people would be prepared to accept the inconveniences of mass transport when individual transport gets them from A to B with minimal delay at not too much extra cost.

The GTZ was a package car otherwise the same. The big thing was the 180 hp "quad4" motor. That motor would have been great in the Fiero that had just died but they tweaked the suspension on the Beretta and added fat 16" wheels and bit held its own pretty well. 7.7 sec 0-60 and .84 on the skidpad was the best FWD factory stock they had ever tested. I think the styling was pretty awesome for the time, much like a Buick Grand National in March Article of the Month – Flashback: 1990 GTZ Road Test « Beretta.net

It was in jest but I see now that human laziness is limitless... so I better get busy on a prototype.

Autonomous vehicles are more about safety and efficiency than laziness. Perhaps you don't have to contend with gridlocked traffic on a daily basis, but many people do, and relieving the tediousness goes beyond allowing laziness, and verges on improving mental well-being.

I would rather safely text than anxiously avoid humans indifferent of whether or not I live.

How about the episode of The Simpsons with Tony Hawk? "All you need to do is stand on this board. Okay. Step on."
"All I need to do is stand?"
"Okay fine."
[Tony picks up Homer and sets him on the skateboard]

Electric vehicles advance safety and efficiency. Self-driving cars advance social control. I have serious concerns about the Arcimoto SRK which has gone from Minimum Viable Product to 'autonomous ready'.